Divorce Carrot Cake
Adapted from Reddit, where a reader claims her dad asked her to make her mom's carrot cake even though they'd been divorced for years.
Servings 12
Cost 5
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour (270 grams)
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup oil
- ¾ cup honey (see note about adding maple syrup)
- 3 large eggs
- 1 can crushed pineapple, drained
- 2 cups grated carrots, slightly heaping (220 grams)
- 1 cup shredded unsweetened coconut
- ⅔ cup walnuts finely chopped
- ⅔ cup raisins
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 16 oz cream cheese softened (480 grams)
- ½ cup butter, salted or unsalted okay softened (114 grams)
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup powdered sugar plus more as needed (you WILL need more) sifted (120 grams)
- lemon juice to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- Grease and flour two 8-inch round cake pans.
- Stir the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon together in a medium bowl.
- Combine oil, honey, eggs and drained pineapple in a large bowl. If you want, you can use the juice from the drained pineapple to soak the raisins.
- Mix dry ingredients, plus carrots, coconut, walnuts and raisins together into the wet ingredients until well-combined.
- Pour into cake pans and bake for 45 minutes.
Cream Cheese Frosting
- Make sure all ingredients are at room temperature (not too cool) and slightly softened. Beat together the cream cheese, butter and sugar until smooth, then beat in the vanilla.
- Scrape down side of the bowl and continue beating, adding lemon juice to taste.
Notes
I use 8 tablespoons of honey and 4 tablespoons of maple syrup just to cut the honey flavor and make it more interesting. The original recipe calls for just honey.